A few weeks ago Twitter annoyed a lot of European users when they stopped sending sms notifications to their users. I never really used that facility so I didn’t miss it but many Tweeters did. Outrage and blue murder were spoken of in the same sentence. People marched in the streets, there were riots.
OK, maybe not, but it annoyed a few prolific Tweeters and I wondered aloud if I could make Tweet Tweet send me sms notifications when I got replies or direct messages. After quite a bit of testing and playing around with Meteor’s website I’m glad to say I cracked it. I added hooks to my plugin for other plugins to latch on to, and wrote a small bit of code that logs in to Meteor.ie and uses their free web text to notify me of replies or direct messages.
Following on from that success, Jason Roe added code so Irish Vodafone customers could get sms notifications too!
So, if you really miss the sms notifications from Twitter, and you’re an Irish Meteor or Vodafone customer, download Tweet Tweet, install it in your WordPress blog and enjoy getting those sms notifications from Twitter again!
Developers – if your phone company isn’t covered just yet, please take a look at the existing Meteor and Vodafone plugins. The framework is there. Using curl to login and send texts can be a little daunting but it’s not impossible. Get in touch by leaving a comment here, or using the contact form on the about page.
PS. Almost forgot to mention Tweetrush went live yesterday with some very nice Twitter stats. Check out what my friend AJ has to say about the launch!
PPS. I’ll be demoing Tweet Tweet at Techludd Cork on Thursday night. If you’re there, please say hi!
Works like a charm – now I just hope it doesn’t burn through all of my 300 monthly web texts!
Thats pretty cool. I never thought of using curl to send meteor webtexts.
Great job on Twitter; I have been looking at Quick SMS
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-sms/
and can’t get it working for Vodafone or Meteor. You did a grat job on Twitter any chance you could look at this one.
Cool job friend! not this is called intelligence 🙂
Does it still work? I guess I’m to stupid to run it work?
Help me please!
Thanks!
Ok I’m having problems coz I don’t get the instruction they give you.. can anyone make it more clearer.. for someone that doesn’t know so well.. Please I really want twitter on my mobile
– i just love to Twitter everyday with my friends. Twitter is much better than blogging in my opinion and it is very addictive too.
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I can’t wait to see how Twitter turn their brand equity and traffic into money.
If I were them, I’d come up with some sort of Adsense-like program with revenue share to the Twitter page owner and sell small and tasteful banner ads on profile pages at a cost per impression and a cost per click.